Re: [cocci] Pre-compiled spatch links against EOL PCRE version

Hi Manuel,

Thanks for the report. You're right, we should move to PCRE2.

Olaf Hering suggested a patch earlier this year to do just this and I 
forgot about it until now. I'll work on reviewing and merging it.

Victor

On 12/15/25 15:43, Manuel Wiesinger wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> The pre-compiled binary provided on the Download page [1] links against
> libpcre.so.3. This library is unmaintained by upstream [2] and not
> available on recent distributions, including Debian 13 [3], RHEL 10 and
> Arch Linux.
>
> I have been using spatch linked against PCRE2 (/usr/lib/libpcre.so.1)
> extensively for days without any issues on Arch Linux.
>
> [1] https://coccinelle.gitlabpages.inria.fr/website/distrib/coccinelle-1.3.1-bin-x86.tar.gz
> [2] https://www.pcre.org/ (See Versions)
> [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/11/msg00176.html
>
> Take care,
> Manuel